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Definition: Gold-bearing |
Gold-bearingAdjective1. Containing gold; "auriferous quartz veins". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Gold-bearingSynonym: auriferous (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: gold bearing sand (european union, mining), gold-bearing sand (european union, chemistry). |
Crosswords: Gold-bearing |
| English words defined with "gold-bearing": Hydraulic mining. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gold-bearing": amalgam pan ♦ banket, basal reef ♦ cleanup barrel, contact reef ♦ DRY-PLACER-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ Edwards roaster ♦ gold-quartz ores ♦ nozzleman ♦ pocket hunter, prospect drill panner ♦ quartz liquefier, quicksilver cradle ♦ reef drive, reef wash ♦ tin dish ♦ winter dumps. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Prospector washing a "pan" of gold-bearing dirt. Pinos Altos, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Simonides | Fighting in the forefront of the Greeks, the Athenians crushed at Marathon the might of the gold-bearing Medes. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Kazakhstan | It has been estimated that there are 23 gold-bearing regions. (references) |
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| "Gold-bearing" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gold-bearing" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "gold-bearing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | златоносен (auriferous). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | old-bearinggay.(various references) | |
Romanian | aurifer (auriferous). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-g-g-i-l-n-o-r" | |
-2 letters: badgering, bandolier, dogearing, girandole, ignorable, reloading. | |
-3 letters: banderol, bearding, bilander, blearing, blindage, boarding, breading, debonair, dialoger, dragline, ganglier, garbling, geraniol, laboring, lagering, organdie, regaling, regional. | |
-4 letters: aboding, abridge, adoring, agelong, aileron, alienor, aligned, aligner, aneroid, argling, badging, baggier, balding, bandore, barding, barging, beading, bearing, bedrail, begonia, begroan, blander, blaring, blinder, blonder, boggier, boggled. | |
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